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This is exactly as detailed as it is when it’s properly localized
This is exactly as detailed as it is when it’s properly localized
The EU giveth and the EU taketh away
I hate Admiral so much. Just be glad this site didn’t disable the bypass link.
I don’t think Microsoft can reasonably block opening the command prompt and bypassing the OOBE without breaking a lot of other things, but them removing the simpler workarounds is a pretty obvious attempt to get more people to sign in with a Microsoft account.
Microsoft does sync activation keys to your account but the license is also embedded in the firmware in recent prebuilt laptops and desktops, so you don’t need a Microsoft account to activate.
The article is talking about the initial setup experience, where you could put in a fake email to bypass the requirement to sign in with a Microsoft account.
I think you’re overthinking this, and extrapolating limited data way too far.
For one, of course historically rich countries are going to be hosting more technology. Tech is expensive, and less developed countries are called that because they’re less developed, which includes electricity grids, internet, economic power, and so on.
Another issue is that just because a Mastodon server is hosted in a particular country, doesn’t mean only people in or from that country can make an account there. Sure, there are some servers that want to keep their communities specific to their local area, but the vast majority have no restrictions. Anyone from anywhere can sign up.
If you’re trying to figure out how to make it so historically poor countries have the most servers instead, you’re going to have to figure out how to fund and manage infrastructure expansion.
It feels like you’re coming at this with the assumption of “every country has the resources to spin up hundreds of social media servers, but they’re just not interested”, which is kind of a weird conclusion to come to after recognizing the historical impact of colonialism and the privilege differences it’s led to.
The good old “make a tech startup with a gimmicky product idea, get millions in VC for some reason, create an underwhelming product that was never meant to be any good, then get bought up by a big company that will sit on the IP and never do anything with it” strategy of making money.
That might explain why the title says “nearly”
I gotta be honest, I’m not sure I’d be willing to trust something I set up myself with general-purpose software to handle something as important as a smoke alarm alert.
That’s the sort of thing that gets hardware dedicated to the task and doesn’t rely on me configuring everything correctly and Linux not crashing because some other unrelated process had issues.
I don’t really care about my TV being 4K, but I like the extra desktop space on my PC.
It’s also very nice how this site tries to launch a new tab to ask to enable notifications.
“Microsoft’s latest update breaks [some] VPNs and there’s no fix [yet]”
Windows is getting worse and worse, but do we have to spin legitimate bugs as some nefarious plot?
That instance just has a custom homepage written in React. The actual social UI is normal Mastodon with some color tweaks.
It is possible to use different frontends for Mastodon, though. Web apps like Elk can either run on a dedicated server to log into any Mastodon instance, or can be hosted by instance admins as alternative frontends.
PC vendors are still selling laptops with 4GB RAM. 16GB should absolutely be the minimum (and should have been since 2020), but it’s very much not true that anything with less than 16GB is over 8 years old.
They absolutely do send emails like this. They’ve got a monitoring service if you have a credit card with them to check for data breaches, and most credit cards and even banks I’ve seen do the same. I just got my monthly monitoring update email this morning from Discover, thankfully telling me they didn’t find anything.
A coin flip program could replace Wall Street “analysts”
The article links directly to HMD’s website for the phones, where the specs say they only support GSM 800 and 1900.
Threads is owned by Facebook, a company notorious for interacting with the web in bad faith.